Tab. 8684. 

 TELOPEA OREADES. 



Australia. 



Pkoteaceae. Tribe Embothrieae. 

 Telopea, It. Br. ; Benth. et HooJc. f. Gen. Plant, vol. ii. p. 184. 



Tolopea oreades, Mtisll. Sixth Syst. Ind. PI. Victoria, p. 18 (nomen) ; Fragm. 

 Phyt. vol. ii. p. 170; Key Syst. Vict. PI. vol. i. p. 277; vol. ii. p. 29, 

 fig. 72; PI. Indig. Victoria, {cont. Eivart) vol. ii. p. 10, t. 73; Benth. Fl. 

 Austral, vol. v. p. 435; Maiden, For. Fl. N.S.W. vol. v. p. 69 (exompl. e 

 Gippsland tantum), t. 163, fig. N ; affinis T. speciosissimae, It Br., sed 

 foliis integris obscure nervosis bracteis minoribus forma diversis distincta ; 

 a T. truncata, R. Br., glabritie bractearum et foliorum forma distat. 



Arbor 9-12 m. alta, ramis sub racemis primo adpresse fulvo-pubescentibus 

 mox glabrescentibus caeterutn glabris cortice nigricante obtectis. Folia, 

 lineari-oblonga vel oblanceolata, basi sensim in petiolum abeuntea, acuta 

 vel obtusa, integra, 15-20 cm. longa, 3-5 cm. lata, coriacea, supra saturate 

 viridia, subtus pallidiora vel subglauca, nervis venisque plerumque obscuris ; 

 petiolus 1-2-5 cm. longus, fusco-pubcrulus. Flores in racemum capituli- 

 formem basi bracteis involucratum dispositi ; rhachis glabra ; bracteae 

 exteriores ovatae, interiores oblongae, cuspidato-acuminatae, subcoriaceae, 

 glabrae, rubrae vel rubescentes, intus increscentes, fere ad 4 cm. longae ; 

 pedicelli 1-25 cm. longi, glabri. Perianth ium kermesinum ante anthesin 

 ipsam tubulosum, modice incurvum, circiter 2*5 cm. longum, glaberrimum, 

 mox uno latere ad ba,si fissum ; limbos revolutus, 6-8 mm. longus, 4-fidus, 

 segmentis spathulatis subacutis 2 interioribus paulo minoribus. Antherae 

 late ovatae. Glandulae bypogynae alte connatae, ovarii basin uno latere 

 cingentes. Pistillum ad 3-5 cm. longum, apice paulo incrassatum, uno 

 latere stigma papillosum gerens. Fructus follicularis, pedicello recurvato 

 insidens, oblongus, stylo coronante dempto circiter 7 cm. longus. Semina 

 circiter 15, ellipsoidea, truncata, 8-10 mm. longa, ala terminali late lineari 

 ad 3 cm. longa.— 0. Stapf. 



The Gippsland Waratah was first discovered by the 

 late Baron von Miiller at Nangutta Creek and Weather- 

 head, according to Mr. Maiden within New South Wales. 

 It has, however, been met with frequently since in Gipps- 

 land, whence its name, and is undoubtedly a Victorian 

 species. The plant which Maiden has figured as Telopea 

 oreades, found at Braidwood, a hundred miles north 

 of Gippsland, is rather different ; it has narrower leaves 

 and a rusty pubescence, as in T. truncata, R. Br., from 

 Tasmania. The most northerly Waratah is T. specio- 

 si.ssima, R. Br., between Hunter and Shoalhaven Rivers 

 in New South Wales. The Braidwood and the Gipps- 

 land plants inhabiting intermediate stations exhibit 



XoVEJIBEK, 1916. 



